June 13 ,1942: Tom Riddle murders Myrtle Waren (a.k.a. Moaning Myrtle) in the first-floor girls’ bathroom at Hogwarts Castle, sending a piece of his soul into his diary.

Tom Riddle's diary was the first of the 7 Horcruxes in Harry Potter to be discovered and the first to be destroyed. At the time, Harry didn't even realize what he was doing.

Riddle's intense desire to live was passed on into his Horcrux, spawning in the Horcrux itself an intense desire to live. My guess is that, as he was an orphan, the diary was probably one of Tom's ...

This makes Tom Riddle's diary the first Horcrux both we and Harry encounter, and of course the first he destroys. There's also a snake.

1. How Did Harry Destroy Tom Riddle's Diary? By Stabbing It With Gryffindor's Sword By Ripping Out Its Pages By Stabbing It With A Basilisk Fang By Casting Fiendfyre In this post: Harry Potter Quizzes ...

Tom Riddle created his first Horcrux by killing his fellow Hogwarts student Myrtle Warren, who's known as Moaning Myrtle. After the murder, the part of his soul that split entered a diary that ...

How were Lord Voldemort’s seven Horcruxes destroyed? When Harry Potter destroyed Tom Riddle’s diary in the Chamber of Secrets, he didn’t even know what it was.

In the Harry Potter series, many of Voldemort's horcruxes were give rich backstories, like Tom Riddle's diary, Marvolo Gaunt's ring, and of course, Harry himself.

Harry destroyed the Tom Riddle diary Horcrux in the Chamber of Secrets with a basilisk fang that had been stuck in his arm. Harry didn't know at the time what he was doing, only that the Riddle ...